History Main / UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom

** The games have one (although it's more attributed to the series being a LongRunner more than anything): [[spoiler:Tsukasa Oyashiki]] is indirectly responsible for the DL-6 incident, thanks to [[spoiler:inadvertently hiding the IS-7 victim's body. This was due to the fact that she was trying to prevent the destruction of some ice statues made by the victim, and didn't even know the killer hid the body there. Because of that, she's responsible for the forgery of evidence and Manfred von Karma's black spot on his perfect record]]. Even worse, the DL-6 Incident led to [[spoiler:the Feys losing their reputation, causing Morgan's husband to leave her and Dahlia to grow up to become a serial killer.]] Poor [[spoiler:Tsukasa]]'s got a ''lot'' of blood on [[spoiler:her]] hands.

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** The games have one (although it's more attributed to the series being a LongRunner more than anything): [[spoiler:Tsukasa Oyashiki]] Oyashiki[=/=]Katherine Hall]] is indirectly responsible for the DL-6 incident, thanks to [[spoiler:inadvertently hiding the IS-7 victim's body. This was due to the fact that she was trying to prevent the destruction of some ice statues made by the victim, and didn't even know the killer hid the body there. Because of that, she's responsible for the forgery of evidence and Manfred von Karma's black spot on his perfect record]]. Even worse, the DL-6 Incident led to [[spoiler:the Feys losing their reputation, causing Morgan's husband to leave her and Dahlia to grow up to become a serial killer.]] Poor [[spoiler:Tsukasa]]'s [[spoiler:Katherine]]'s got a ''lot'' of blood on [[spoiler:her]] hands.

* In the second season of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', [[spoiler:the team was trying to bring in a delusional war veteran who is panicking because the construction sounds like the war zone. Now, they find him and have swat surround the suspect as they coaxed him to surrender. They tell these construction men nearby in plain view of the drama to stop working until they are done, but naturally the men resume construction before the suspect is apprehended. This causes the suspect to panic and he runs towards a kid on a bike, forcing a SWAT marksman to shoot him.]] [[WhatTheHellTownspeople The construction crew couldn’t have waited 30 minutes for the damn police, SWAT, and FBI to finish?]]

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* In the second season of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', [[spoiler:the team was trying to bring in a delusional war veteran who is panicking because the construction sounds like the war zone. Now, they find him and have swat surround the suspect as they coaxed him to surrender. They tell these construction men nearby in plain view of the drama to stop working until they are done, but naturally the men resume construction before the suspect is apprehended. This causes the suspect to panic and he runs towards a kid on a bike, forcing a SWAT marksman to shoot him.]] [[WhatTheHellTownspeople The construction crew couldn’t have waited 30 minutes for the damn police, SWAT, and FBI to finish?]]]]

* ''FanFic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': [[spoiler:The Nightmare reveals it and other Champions of Chaos intended Sunset Shimmer to be this, placing a trigger within her to turn her into a demon the instant she put the Element of Magic on her head. It didn't work out as they planned - Sunset transforms, but is reverted to normal by the heroes soon after, without doing any lasting damage.]]

** Aoba Yamashir is a recurring background ninja who was probably never formally introduced, databooks aside. Why is his name so well-known in some parts of the ''Naruto'' community? A single careless sentence out of Aoba's mouth revealed Itachi's whereabouts and goals to Sasuke. Following that, Sasuke tried to beat up Itachi, was soundly defeated, and pondered why Itachi would be interested in Naruto. Sure, Sasuke wasn't particularly stable before, but this huge blow to Sasuke's self-esteem was the catalyst for the event that would finally send Sasuke over to TheDarkSide.** Kakashi, ''of all people''. [[spoiler:He speaks about Naruto's birth at Rin's grave, and it just ''so happens'' that Tobi/Obito happened to overhear it, resulting in ''the Nine-Tailed Fox's fateful attack'' and the death of the Fourth Hokage]]. Furthermore, had Kakashi not [[spoiler:abandoned his principles and went back to help Obito save Rin, then Obito would have died. If Obito had died then, then Naruto's parents would still be alive, Naruto wouldn't have been marginalized by the village in his youth, Nagato would have been less crazy, the Rain Village wouldn't have committed as much genocide, Madara's plan would have died with him, the Jinchuriki would still be alive, the Uchiha Massacre might have been stopped, the Fourth Great Shinobi World War wouldn't have happened, and the Ten Tails wouldn't have been revived to wreak destruction upon the world.]] When Kakashi realizes this, he [[DespairEventHorizon logically isn't happy.]]** Jiraiya took pity on three Rain Village orphans and trained them. They grow up to be revolutionaries in their own village, and after [[spoiler:Yahiko dies, Nagato turns evil, helps form Akatsuki with Tobi/Obito and Konan, and becomes an enemy of the Leaf Village, killing Jiraiya and devastating the village.]] But to be fair that only happened cause of the guy right below...

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** Aoba Yamashir Yamashiro is a recurring background ninja who was probably never formally introduced, databooks aside. Why is his name so well-known in some parts of the ''Naruto'' community? A single careless sentence out of Aoba's mouth revealed Itachi's whereabouts and goals to Sasuke. Following that, Sasuke tried to beat up Itachi, was soundly defeated, and pondered why Itachi would be interested in Naruto. Sure, Sasuke wasn't particularly stable before, but this huge blow to Sasuke's self-esteem was the catalyst for the event that would finally send Sasuke over to TheDarkSide.** Kakashi, ''of all people''. [[spoiler:He speaks about Naruto's birth at Rin's grave, and it just ''so happens'' that Tobi/Obito happened to overhear it, resulting in ''the Nine-Tailed Fox's fateful attack'' and the death of the Fourth Hokage]]. Furthermore, had Kakashi not [[spoiler:abandoned his principles and went back to help Obito save Rin, then Obito would have died. If Obito had died then, then he wouldn't have been picked up by [[BigBad Madara Uchiha]] and groomed into being his successor... so Naruto's parents would still be alive, Naruto wouldn't have been marginalized by the village in his youth, Nagato would have been less crazy, the Rain Village wouldn't have committed as much genocide, Madara's plan would have died with him, the Jinchuriki would still be alive, the Uchiha Massacre might have been stopped, the Fourth Great Shinobi World War wouldn't have happened, and the Ten Tails wouldn't have been revived to wreak destruction upon the world.]] When Kakashi realizes this, he [[DespairEventHorizon logically isn't happy.]]** Jiraiya took pity on three Rain Village orphans ([[spoiler: Nagato, Konan and Yahiko]]) and trained them. They grow up to be revolutionaries in their own village, and after [[spoiler:Yahiko dies, Nagato turns evil, helps form Akatsuki with Tobi/Obito and Konan, and becomes an enemy of the Leaf Village, killing Jiraiya and devastating the village.]] But to be fair that only happened cause of the guy right below...

* ''Anime/BloodPlus'': Though Saya Otonashi is the one who released Diva to the world, the first Joel is responsible for Diva's state of mind given that he secluded her in a tower with no contact from anyone except Amshel and treated her as a lab rat while he pampered Saya like his own daughter.

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* ''Anime/BloodPlus'': Though Saya Otonashi is the one who released Diva to the world, the first Joel is responsible for Diva's extremely unstable state of mind given that he secluded her in a tower with no contact from anyone except Amshel and treated her as a lab rat while he pampered Saya like his own daughter.daughter. Had he raised both girls equally, Diva would've grown far less bitter and angry at the whole world and caused much less damange than she did to Saya and others.

** Bagheera tells Colonel Hathi about Mowgli running away, not knowing that a hidden Sher Khan is nearby listening on the conversation, which alerts him that there is a man-caub in the jungle. A similar incident happens just before the climax.** Sher Khan overhears the vultures singing to Mowgli to cheer him up, and that draws him in to their presence. In both situations, Mowgli would have been safer if hia safer had stayed silent.

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** Bagheera tells Colonel Hathi about Mowgli running away, not knowing that a hidden Sher Khan is nearby listening in on the conversation, which alerts him that there is a man-caub in the jungle. A similar incident happens just before the climax.** Sher Khan overhears the vultures singing to Mowgli to cheer him up, and that draws him in to their presence. In both situations, Mowgli would have been safer if hia safer his friends had stayed silent.

* ''Disney/{{The Jungle Book}}'':** Bagheera tells Colonel Hathi about Mowgli running away, not knowing that a hidden Sher Khan is nearby listening on the conversation, which alerts him that there is a man-caub in the jungle. A similar incident happens just before the climax.** Sher Khan overhears the vultures singing to Mowgli to cheer him up, and that draws him in to their presence. In both situations, Mowgli would have been safer if hia safer had stayed silent.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': One day, a young thug named Danny Brickwell was undergoing his initiation for a gang in the Glades. The initiation process required him to kill someone to get in. He chose a brunette woman who ran the free clinic there. That woman? [[PlotTriggeringDeath Rebecca]] [[TheLostLenore Merlyn]]. After that, it was just one domino after another.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': ** One day, a young thug named Danny Brickwell was undergoing his initiation for a gang in the Glades. The initiation process required him to kill someone to get in. He chose a brunette woman who ran the free clinic there. That woman? [[PlotTriggeringDeath Rebecca]] [[TheLostLenore Merlyn]]. After that, it was just one domino after another.another.** Moira Queen is the indirect cause for the events of Season Three. During the events of Season Two, prior to her death, she informed the League of Assassins of Malcolm Merlyn's survival. The League, specifically Ra's al Ghul himself, were ''not'' happy with Malcolm after the Undertaking, and marked him down for death. Malcolm became so desperate to get off the League's hit list that he went as far as to brainwash Thea, ''his own daughter'', into killing Sara Lance, and taping it to blackmail Oliver into accepting the blame for Sara's death and issuing a challenge to Ra's al Ghul -- by killing Ra's, Oliver would be able to get everyone, even Malcolm and Thea, out of the red.

* Both Gringoire and Djali serve as this in the Burbank Films Australia [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameBurbankAnimation adaptation]] of TheHunchbackOfNotreDame - firstly, Gringoire tells Frollo where Esmeralda is going, thus allowing the priest to find and stab Phoebus, then Djali performs a trick during Esmeralda's trial, thus "proving" the accusations of witchcraft. Luckily, disaster is averted when Quasimodo rescues Esmeralda.

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* Both Gringoire and Djali serve as this in the Burbank Films Australia [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameBurbankAnimation adaptation]] adaptation of TheHunchbackOfNotreDame ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameBurbankAnimation The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' - firstly, Gringoire tells Frollo where Esmeralda is going, thus allowing the priest to find and stab Phoebus, then Djali performs a trick during Esmeralda's trial, thus "proving" the accusations of witchcraft. Luckily, disaster is averted when Quasimodo rescues Esmeralda.

* During Hanako's route in the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' [[spoiler:Misha]] decides to teasingly question her and Hisao about their relationship. As a result of this queston [[spoiler:Hisao is forced into a situation where he had to tell Hanako about the suprise birthday party that he and Lily were planning for her. This just happens to cause [[FragileFlower Hanako]] to have [[AngstComa a SEVERE panic attack]].]] In [[spoiler:Misha]]'s defense she truly didn't know that [[spoiler:[[BirthdayHater Hanako's birthday]] had such [[TraumaButton terrible memories associated with it]], and she's genuinely sorry for the consequences.

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* During Hanako's route in the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' [[spoiler:Misha]] decides to teasingly question her and Hisao about their relationship. As a result of this queston [[spoiler:Hisao is forced into a situation where he had to tell Hanako about the suprise birthday party that he and Lily were planning for her. This just happens to cause [[FragileFlower Hanako]] to have [[AngstComa a SEVERE panic attack]].attack]] in the middle of the following class, which is so serious that she has to be taken back to her room.]] In [[spoiler:Misha]]'s defense she truly didn't know that [[spoiler:[[BirthdayHater Hanako's birthday]] had such [[TraumaButton terrible memories associated with it]], and she's it]]]], is genuinely sorry for the consequences.consequences, and apologizes to Hanako as soon as she can talk to her.

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